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Colin Morgan
Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Colin Morgan is an actor from Northern Ireland. He is known for playing the title character in the BBC fantasy series Merlin (2008–2012), Leo Elster in Humans (2015–2018), and Bil…
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Colin Morgan is an actor from Northern Ireland. He is known for playing the title character in the BBC fantasy series Merlin (2008–2012), Leo Elster in Humans (2015–2018), and Billy Clanton in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (2021). Morgan made his London theatre debut in 2007 as the title character in DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little. He went on to appear in the theatre productions Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre ("All About My Mother") in 2007, Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter in 2008, Pedro Miguel Rozo's Our Private Life in 2011, Step in Time at The Old Vic 24 Hour Musicals Celebrity Gala in 2012, Shakespeare's The Tempest in 2013, and Jez Butterworth's Mojo during 2013 and 2014. In July 2008, Screen International named Morgan as a "Star of Tomorrow". For his performance in Merlin, Morgan was nominated for Outstanding Actor (Drama) in the Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards in 2009, 2010, and 2011, and Best Actor in Drama Performance: Male in the National Television Awards in 2013.
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2026
Long Day's Journey into Night
Movie Edmund Tyrone
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2026
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Movie Earl Clancy
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2024
Dead and Buried
TV show Michael McAllister
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2024
The Boy That Never Was
TV show Harry Lonergan
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2024
The Dead Don't Hurt
Movie Lewis Cartwright
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2024
The Chronicles of Armagh
TV show (voice)
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2023
The Killing Kind
TV show John Webster
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2023
Dead Shot
Movie Michael O'Hara
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2022
Mammals
TV show Jeff Wilson
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2022
The Sandman
TV show Sexton
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2022
Corsage
Movie Bay Middleton
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2021
Belfast
Movie Billy Clanton
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2021
Three Families
TV show Jonathan Kennedy
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2021
Chronicles of the Glens
TV show Narrator
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2020
We Hunt Together
TV show Liam Gates
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2020
Trying
TV show Kerry
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2019
Mountain Vets
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2019
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Movie Chris Keller
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2019
Benjamin
Movie Benjamin
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2018
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Movie Owen
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2018
The Happy Prince
Movie Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
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2017
Waiting for You
Movie Paul Ashton
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2016
The Crown
TV show John Armstrong
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2016
The Living and the Dead
TV show Nathan Appleby
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2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Movie Duke of Blackwood
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2016
The Laughing King
Movie Jake
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2015
Legend
Movie Frank Shea
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2015
Humans
TV show Leo Elster
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2015
Testament of Youth
Movie Victor Richardson
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2014
The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Movie Ariel
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2014
Quirke
TV show Jimmy Minor
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2013
The Fall
TV show Tom Anderson
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2011
Island
Movie Calum
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2010
Parked
Movie Cathal O'Regan
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2009
The Real Merlin and Arthur
Movie Colin Morgan
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2009
Merlin: Secrets and Magic
TV show Self
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2008
Merlin
TV show Merlin
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2006
The One Show
TV show Self
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2005
Doctor Who
TV show Jethro Cane
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The Emperor's Stone: The Search of La Buse's Treasure
TV show Theo Levasseur
